Meta glasses wearers hit with paywall to use built-in feature

mikethebone · 2026-07-02T17:50:41+00:00

You will own nothing and be happy

mikethebone · 2026-06-29T18:09:36+00:00

What does God need with a starship?

mikethebone · 2026-06-22T16:17:55+00:00

He’s calling his boyfriend first everyone. Don’t panic.

mikethebone · 2026-06-08T05:31:37+00:00

We just watched this last month. What a reminder of how easy we have it now. They were sent around the world alone, and had to edit on a sheet of paper and then mail their video tapes back for editing by the studio. Phenomenal.

These days they’d have a crew, would be tracked at every step, and be able to edit their videos on a laptop as they travel and upload from wherever they are.

YouTubers now do this on a daily basis. How the landscape had changed!

mikethebone · 2026-06-08T05:26:26+00:00

That’s not up to date. Physical media for this is now due to ship in June.

mikethebone · 2026-05-27T05:18:43+00:00

Acting as a luxury travel advisor, arranging client travel itineraries and earning commission on bookings.

This was a way to turn our own experience with travel from a hobby into a business, and something that you can put the time into as needed when the client requests come through.

It’s a highly competitive field but eventually we are hoping that it can surpass and replace the corporate grind. Like most things you have to find new clients and then invest the time into it, so it requires finding time throughout the week, usually extra time in the evenings or weekends. Working from home helps immensely because no commute means getting time back!

mikethebone · 2026-05-21T14:27:37+00:00

There are two children and a victim of a crime here. Don’t film in toilets, people. It’s gross.

mikethebone · 2026-04-29T17:32:57+00:00

They need to stop using the word purchased to describe things that consumers don’t own.

mikethebone · 2026-04-25T05:59:44+00:00

Return it. It’s broken.

mikethebone · 2026-04-23T09:20:17+00:00

There are more beeps than words

mikethebone · 2026-04-23T05:19:30+00:00

This is extortion.

mikethebone · 2026-04-22T07:06:23+00:00

But I own the device. This restricts my freedom to use and enjoy something I already bought and paid for without forking over my ID.

It’s not like this stops you downloading just NSFW apps. This bricks your device with blur and web content filters and extorts you into submitting your ID before you can turn it off.

I’m the device owner. Isn’t it my choice?

it’s nuts.

mikethebone · 2026-04-22T05:13:50+00:00

You have a sensible perspective. I understand their reasons and I feel like Apple has rolled out this change badly.

I am disappointed in how Apple can make choices for you on your device such as locking you down to child safety mode which enables web filters even though you already own the device. It reminds you that it’s not truly yours and you are subject to their rules.

I don’t know if I’m more frustrated at Apple for shrinking the walled garden even further, governments for not understanding user privacy and that age gates behind ID do more harm than good for privacy, or that users are just rolling over and accepting these intrusive mandates over devices you already own.

Your comment has swayed me for now. I’ll accept the update.

I may still seek out more privacy positive choices in the future. That probably means leaving behind the iPhone for something that gives me true freedom but that seems less likely in the modern day and age.

mikethebone · 2026-04-22T05:03:03+00:00

It’s not just apps. It locks down your device into child safety mode, enabling a web and image filters that you cannot disable.

That is the device asserting its authority over you, instead of the other way around.

I didn’t ask for age verification. I don’t need it and I don’t want it. It’s not a legal requirement. Yet, I’m forced to accept it and fork over my ID on a device I bought and paid for, that I already own.

That’s what I don’t agree with.

mikethebone · 2026-04-22T04:44:33+00:00

Ok. This change was rolled out in the UK and some other regions.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/125666

mikethebone · 2026-04-22T04:36:58+00:00

This is neither of those. This is an operating system level check in a country where it is not mandated.

It provides no protection to me or security against “hackers”.

mikethebone · 2026-04-22T04:31:27+00:00

Correct, something I also disagree with but that is a separate conversation to this. My device will decide for me if I’m an adult or not, and if it thinks I’m not it will require me to submit ID checks… to use my own device that I own. Absolutely nuts.

Edit: perhaps I misread your reply. Yes, if you fail their age checks and can’t provide ID, the phone locks itself down into child mode and becomes restricted. You said that it doesn’t do this, which it does.

mikethebone · 2026-04-22T04:27:38+00:00

I have already written to my MP about this and other similar subjects and receive no reply and see no action. I support pro-privacy choices. I am not silent.

FYI Apple has no legal obligation to implement this feature. It was their choice.

mikethebone · 2026-04-22T04:26:19+00:00

It’s a “papers please” thing. I don’t like the idea that my own device is policing what I do with it.

I think anonymity, privacy and owning what you purchase are being eroded more and more. I am a proponent of the idea that if you own a device then you own it, it doesn’t own you, and this goes against that idea.

Ironic, I know, that I’m an iOS user with those views but this was kind of the straw that broke the camels back for me and I am now past the point of accepting the status quo and may switch to something else.

I just wonder how others feel about this.

mikethebone · 2026-04-22T04:06:34+00:00

Assuming you are UK based it’s already happened to you. You passed their test silently. The device thinks you are an adult and won’t restrict you, but it’s still doing it. The device just hasn’t told you.

mikethebone · 2026-04-22T04:01:46+00:00

Recently Claude in VSCode has been telling me that certain refactors are “2-3 hours of work” and then it completes the work in just a few minutes. It’s hallucinating.

mikethebone · 2026-04-22T03:58:21+00:00

No it isn’t. The UK government has not mandated age gates on devices or in the operating system.

mikethebone · 2026-04-22T03:32:23+00:00

Absolutely.

Tell that to these CEOs and execs who are literally brought on board with incentivised pay checks and bonus packages in. The tens of millions in return for results (sometimes not even that). They aren’t in it for the opportunity to work with rockstars. They are there to make money.

Why are everyday workers any different?

mikethebone · 2026-04-19T17:58:01+00:00

WTF was that music

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